MOTIONrehab was featured in The Yorkshire Post following the launch of MOTIONrehab’s new Intensive Neurological Rehabilitation Centre in Leeds. Journalist Chris Burns, came to visit the centre, meet the MOTIONrehab team along with the patients and to see for himself how robotics are incorporated into Neurological rehabilitation. 

Most people would think nothing of walking 135 steps, but for the usually wheelchair-bound Alf Limb completing such a distance is his equivalent of successfully running a marathon. The 77-year-old former butcher is one of the patients of a new neuro rehabilitation centre in Yorkshire which is using state-of-the-art robotics and virtual reality technology to offer fresh hope to people whose lives have been dramatically restricted by the often-sudden onset of disability.

Before the pioneering new facility – the only one of its kind in the UK and run by a company called MOTIONrehab – opened this week at a business park in Morley, Alf was only able to manage a few steps across his living room on a zimmer frame, with the support of a physiotherapist and his wife Judith following immediately behind with his wheelchair should he fall over. But in his two attempts on a ‘robotic gait trainer’ called Lyra at the facility this week, Alf has managed to do the equivalent of well over 100m each time – far outstripping what he has previously been able to achieve. The machine works by holding feet in place on mobile foot plates to replicate natural walking patterns. The result is that users are able to make up to 40 times as many steps compared to treadmill training or manual walking practice.

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